Pride Music Festival today unveiled the full artist lineup for its five electronic and live stages settled amid the palms of San Diego’s Balboa Park this July 18-19. The list includes current dance, pop, hip-hop, Latin and other acts including Emma Hewitt, Late Night Alumni, Mary Lambert, Ruby Rose, Pierce Fulton, Taryn Manning, Big Freedia,…
Openly gay Indiana artist Matt Gold, premieres his latest new video “Low” today. Chart-topping and acclaimed singer-songwriter Gold has garnered an engaged international fan base for his boldly emotive adult contemporary music. For Gold and his fans, the haunting and vulnerable quality of his songs have been symbiotically cathartic, helping both parties to grow through…
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat from Orange County, today formally declared her candidacy to replace U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. Launching her campaign at a train station in her hometown of Santa Ana Sanchez said, “There are two kinds of candidates. Those who want to be something and those who want to do something. I am…
Yesterday, by a vote of 36 to 6, the Nevada Assembly passed a sweeping anti-bullying initiative seeking to ensure the safety and well being of the state’s youth. The Human Rights Campaign praised the passage of the bill that includes protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill now heads to the desk…
As Lindsay White succinctly sums it up, “Our band’s mission goes further than our passion for music: we are also involved in mental health and LGBTQ advocacy. Our journey has included romance, breakups, breakdowns, divorce, hospitalization and everything in between – thank goodness for the healing power of music.” Just ahead of their U.S. tour…
Ahead of its centennial in 2016 the National Park Service is finding new ways to connect with the LGBT community. Set up in 1916, the National Park Service is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior and is led by a director nominated by the president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The…
Longtime community leaders will receive lifetime achievement awards. The planning committee for San Diego’s seventh annual Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast may have a disagreement with one of their honorees. Phill Wilson, the president and chief executive officer of the Black AIDS Institute who is being honored with the Harvey Milk Lifetime Achievement Award, doesn’t believe…
This month is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month in the U.S.A. As I often say the Golden State is turning brown with the Latino and Asian communities the fastest growing in California. In San Diego we have a very big Asian Pacific Islander community; in fact, San Diego is home to the largest Filipino population outside…
An Aug. 26 preliminary hearing has been set for an 18-year-old murder suspect who is accused of fatally stabbing a Chula Vista man following a sexual encounter. The April 23 slaying of Rene Macias Pressa, 44, was initially puzzling because he was found dead outside his home at 45 Third Ave. and there was a…
